Thanks Niners52.

I moved to HTTPS and was facing the same problem. Your answer has helped.

I wonder if there is a need to submit a https sitemap on the http bing. Did you think about this?

• Have you seen websites use double dashes?

A single dash has become norm and users read it and use it that way, but a double dash is outside the norm in my opinion and you could end up with a lot of incorrect backlinks. A customer might type the URL with a single dash and end up with a 404 page for instance.

Google's pre-built filters are working fine for me (i.e. all sessions) and it's my bot filter when I view via a date range vs month only that is causing the confusion.

I got an answer from the google analytics technical page. There is a setting to exclude bot traffic, therefore avoiding the need to build custom segments.

You can do this for each profile so I've turned it on to test, let's see how my results turn out. If it removes the bot traffic automatically, then the date range wouldn't change. Here's how to do it:

Admin >> View Settings >> Bot Filtering (Click the Check Box) then the Save button. Done... no need for a dedicated segment.

I didn't know about this. I always thought the a data range would show the same data as the small range.

Strange thing is, If I note down each month's sessions individually and then add them up, they closely match the total session count my data range gives. Its just that my month data within the range that is wrong.

I've been scratching my head, chin, and you name it over this one.

I have an advanced segment to remove bot traffic from my data. When I look at the Audience Overview data for a single month (let's say Aug). I am shown a session count.

No problems here, however If I set the date range to (January - August). The august monthly stats is incorrect, much lower. What this means is that, if I export a CSV report from Jan-Aug, the data is wrong compared to individually recording a month.

Anyone faced this? I've asked the question over at the Google Analytics technical section as well, but no answer

P.S I even used the 'control the number of sessions used to calculate this report' tool but no luck.

Thanks for the response Jesse.

Our site is an ecommerce one, and every product page is supported with a pdf. This is expected from our customers and it basically is the product page in a PDF format with tweaks. We have 10,000s of these and for speed, we store files such as pdfs and images locally in a subdomain.

For content delivery network purposes, I heard it was better to keep pdfs, images separate as well? We haven't got a CDN but it's something we will look into next year.

Do you recommend scrapping the subdomain in such an instance and hosting them all in the main domain in a folder? Would that impact on page load and speed?

Also is it possible to redirect individual subdomain URLs to a main domain one?

ello!

We host our PDFs, Images, CSS all in a sub domain. For the question, let's call this sub.cyto.com. I've noticed a particular PDF doing really well, infact it has gathered valuable external links from high authoritative sites. To top it off, it gets good visits.

I've been going back and forth with our developers to move this PDF to a subfolder structure.
For example: www.cyto.com/document/xxxx.pdf

In my perspective, if I move this and set up a permanent redirect, then all the external links the PDF gathered, link juice and future visits will be attributed to the main website. Since the PDF is existing in the subdomain, I can't even track direct visits nor get the link juice. It appears in top position of Google as well.

My developer says it is better to keep images, pdf, css in the subdomain. I see his point and an idea I have is to:

• convert the pdf to a webpage.
• Set up a 301 redirect from the existing subdomain to this webpage
• Upload the pdf with a new name and link to it from the webpage, so users can download if they choose to.

This should give me the existing rank juice. However, my question is whether you can set up a 301 redirect for just a single subdomain URL to a folder structure URL?

sub.cyto.com/xxx.pdf to www.cyto.com/document/xxxx.pdf?

It's the wordtracker chrome add-on called scout. I was using it to find high performing keywords and decided to run it on my own site.That's when I noticed no meta description being highlighted. There are no settings in the add-on though

I did some more reading and w3.org states it is good practise to use lower case for all HTML elements and attribute names, so I'm going to change it. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.2

Better to follow good practice than bad.

I just ran the wordtracker tool and noticed something interesting. The tool didn't pick up our meta description.

It's strange as our meta descriptions appear in organic search results and Moz never reported missing meta descriptions.After reviewing other pages,  I noticed our meta description tag is written as the following:

name="Description" content="

I never thought about this, but are meta tags case sensitive? Should it be written as:

name="description" content="

Thoughts?

Hey, I had the same question and got some good answers, check out my post

http://moz.com/community/q/hover-texts-for-hyperlinks

Absolutely,

I would also suggest being wary of Google's EMD update. If you don't have a domain with quality content, it won't rank you high just because you have the keyword in the URL.

Hey, I had the same question and got some good answers, check out my post

http://moz.com/community/q/hover-texts-for-hyperlinks

Now that I know what they are "link titles", I was able to find this old (but useful) article on moz

Link Title Attribute and its SEO Benefit

http://moz.com/ugc/link-tilte-attribute-and-its-seo-benefit

The comments section really fleshes out some good points even if the article is 4 years old. Recent comments SEs don't consider title, hmm...

• Have you seen websites use double dashes?

A single dash has become norm and users read it and use it that way, but a double dash is outside the norm in my opinion and you could end up with a lot of incorrect backlinks. A customer might type the URL with a single dash and end up with a 404 page for instance.